Stem Cell Chicken and Egg Debate Moves to Unlikely Arena: the Testes
Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 12:21
in Biology & Nature
Logic says it has to be the niche. As air and water preceded life, so the niche, that hospitable environment that shelters adult stem cells in many tissues and provides factors necessary to keep them young and vital, must have emerged before its stem cell dependents.
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